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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ourchair" data-source="post: 5262741" data-attributes="member: 85362">mkill has a good point.It's not like the Essentials combined with the lack of reprints of the first books means that these mechanics are going to fade away. These aren't poorly kept manuscripts or badly stored film reels. Some catastrophic disaster notwithstanding, the original classes and races aren't going away.1) Wizards still has the means to reproduce the old mechanics by initiating a new wave of prints if they really feel like it. It's not like they don't still have the PDFs and inDesign files for the original material.2) There're enough torrents out there of the original material that at worst, we're going to see it lying around as 'abandonware.' 3) The Character Builder still has the mechanical content of those 'old' classes.The point is that it's going to take a lot more than 'no reprints' to kill those things. Lord knows that Golden Age comic books, forgotten black and white film reels and pre-20th century literature has survived worse.</blockquote>